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For keen divers who have made it this far, there are several camps and hotels to the south of town offering the opportunity to explore the most remote dive sites in the southern Red Sea – and to experience an eerily empty and barren region of mountains, ocean and reef far removed from the commercialized northern Red Sea coast.
One of the most popular of these dive sites is the Dolphin House Reef (also known as Samadai Reef), a crescent-shaped protected area set up in 2001 to protect the area's spinner dolphins. Tourist numbers to the reef have been capped at two hundred per day – previously there were up to 2,500 – and it's now a great spot for snorkelling as well as diving. Other notable dive sites include Elphinstone, a 300-metre-long reef ideal for drift diving; Abu Dabab, a series of sheltered reefs; Fury Shoals, a set of reefs rich in marine life; and St John's, a site with caves, black coral and – if you're lucky – sharks.
Wadi Gimal National Park
A unique protected area covering 6000 square kilometres of land and 4000 square kilometres of sea, Wadi Gimal National Park is home to an interesting mix of archeological sites and wildlife. The area once lay on an important trading route, and there are several pharaonic and Roman ruins to explore, including the village of Geli and an old emerald mine. Wild gazelle can also be seen, while in spring and the autumn you may be able to spot migrant birds such as osprey, falcons, white-eyed gulls and the occasional flamingo. Red Sea Desert Adventures (w redseadesertadventures.com) and the Shams Alam Beach Resort can organize dives, excursions and overnight camping in the park.
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I am a bad person and an even worse blogger. I have abandoned my blog baby for quite some time. I have been M.I.A., not
not in MIA (although I wish that were the case),
(If you didn't make it through the video above, I don't blame you)
but regular ole M.I.A.
Life happens and you know what? The times, they are a' changin'!
One of the things that I have been busy doing instead of yakkin' yo ear off (you're welcome) is having my picture taken. These photos are old but they're new to this blog, so whatevs.
I love working with Kristin, she is super sweet and also pretty good with a camera! Check out her site!
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Seminary Alumnus, Board Member, Deacon John Zarras Falls Asleep in the Lord
April 1, 2012 • Memory Eternal!
On April 1, 2012, St. Vladimir's Seminary lost a dear alumnus, great friend, and tremendous supporter, when Deacon John Zarras fell asleep in the Lord. Deacon John, who served most recently as deacon at Christ the Savior Church, Southbury, Connecticut, was a 2006 graduate of our school, having earned his Master of Divinity degree over a several-year period as a late-vocations student. Whenever he visited our campus, his positive attitude and reassuring smile consistently uplifted the spirits of the seminary community.
Besides attending the seminary as a student, Dn. John served our community in several capacities: Board of Trustee member and Corporate Secretary of the Board; Chair of the Advancement Committee of the Board; President of the St. Vladimir's Seminary Foundation; and committee member for the SVS 2010 Strategic Plan. Deacon John also served in numerous capacities for the Orthodox Church in America, including most recently as a member of the Metropolitan Council, representing the Diocese of New England, and as a member of the newly formed Strategic Planning Committee.
Visitation will be held at Christ the Savior Church, 1070 Roxbury Rd., Southbury, CT, from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5. The Panikhida will be celebrated at 7:00 p.m.
Funeral services will be held at the church at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, April 6, followed by internment at Saint John Cemetery, Monroe.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Christ the Savior Orthodox Church, or to the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation at www.bit.ly/cfcf-zarras.
The entire seminary community is in prayer for Deacon John upon his repose, and for his wife, Evangeline, and their family. Memory Eternal!


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Well, it is that time of year again and I thought I would repost my revised spill on vapor barriers.
Vapor barriers aren't that easy to use if you don't understand what is going on and they aren't that hard to use if you do. Does that make any sense? If it does, you don't need to read any further. If it doesn't, then read on and see if this helps.
I use plastic or silnylon as a vapor barrier between my hammock and my SnugFit Underquilt. The suspension system on the SnugFit helps keep the vapor barrier against the fabric of the hammock to minimize air gaps that would encourage insensible perspiration to condense and pool. With the vapor barrier held in place against the underside of the hammock fabric, the hammock fabric wicks away any slight buildup of insensible perspiration where it can more easily evaporate and I usually don't even notice it. I pick when I do that and understand how to use it. It is been very effective for me at extending the lower temperature range that I can use my underquilt. I would not use a vapor barrier when I was using the underquilt in warmer conditions because then I would be dealing with sweat and there would be larger amounts of sweat/moisture to deal with as the vapor barrier would cause me to overheat even more and prevent moisture from sweat from passing through the breathable underquilt.
In general, breathable insulation works best when your insulation is getting too warm for you and less breathable insulation works best when your insulation is not quite warm enough for you. That has everything to do with how, when, and why your body produces sweat (or sensible perspiration) and insensible perspiration.
Your body produces sweat to help cool off at the outer surface of your skin with evaporative cooling when you overheat. Your body does not produce sweat when you are not overheating... you don't just leak water through your skin all the time. When you are not sweating, your body can produce insensible perspiration to keep your skin from drying out. If your skin is moist enough, or not too dry, your body doesn't produce insensible perspiration because it senses that it doesn't need to.
It takes energy for your body to produce insensible perspiration. When you are not overheating and your skin is not producing sweat, a vapor barrier will cause your skin to quit producing insensible perspiration after some period of time. Your skin quits producing insensible perspiration because the vapor barrier creates a high humidity environment by trapping the moisture from your previous insensible perspiration. When this happens your body does not use energy to produce that insensible perspiration anymore and can use that energy to help keep you warmer. It a sense, your body becomes a more efficient furnace.
A vapor barrier is not so good when used at the wrong time or when used incorrectly. When you are overheating and using a vapor barrier, your skin continually produces sweat as a means of cooling off via evaporative cooling. The vapor barrier prevents the evaporative cooling because the sweat is trapped by the vapor barrier. You just keep sweating and moisture can build up. You need to do something to keep from overheating because what your body is doing isn't working because of the vapor barrier. You need to remove the vapor barrier, vent, or remove insulation.
When you use a vapor barrier with breathable insulation between it and your skin, that breathable insulation is subject to getting moist or even wet from insensible perspiration. The insensible perspiration will initially pass through the breathable insulation and stop when it hits the vapor barrier. This continues until the humidity builds up enough for skin to quit producing insensible perspiration. But until that happens that breathable insulation is going to be getting moist too. What you want is a thin wickable sheet of fabric between you and the vapor barrier such that it can wick any slight moisture buildup away where it can evaporate into the surrounding air. Of course it helps for the surrounding air to be able to absorb that moisture because if it can't, it won't and you will be clammy.
And of course, if you use breathable insulation between you and a vapor barrier while you are overheating, you will soak that breathable insulation with sweat (sensible perspiration). That is bad and that happens when people don't understand how and when to use a vapor barrier.
When closed cell foam pads are used with breathable underquilts in hammocks, we get a situation where the overall insulation is greater than the sum of the various components making up the insulation. That is because closed cell foam pads are also vapor barriers. The vapor barrier stops your body from producing insensible perspiration and causes the breathable underquilt to provide more apparent insulation (although it isnt doing anything different) because your body is now operating more efficiently at keeping you warm. If you use a ccf pad that provides 20F worth of insulation with a breathable underquilt that provides 40F worth of insulation by itself, you will end up with more than 20 + 40 = 60F worth of insulation. You might end up with 70F worth of insulation or more.
You can also wear a vapor barrier to help stay warmer. You can do it selectively for parts of your body or you can do it for your whole body (but dont forget you need to breathe). You can use vapor barrier liners for sleeping bags or plastic bags over your feet, head (as a hat), torso, etc or rain suits. I havent tried a vapor barrier liner for a sleeping bag but have used a rain suit for a vapor barrier (even breathable ones work) and used plastic bags over feet, head, and torso with success. I always have used thin liner material under them with the understanding they would likely get slightly moist from insensible perspiration.
Vapor barriers work well for people that know when and how to use them and are often problems or even disasters for people that don't.
[I am a little conflicted about this particular paragraph. On one hand I feel it is important if this write up is going to be used as somewhat of a reference for vapor barriers. On the other hand I dont want to scare folks about a problem they arent likely to encounter but here goes.] Understanding vapor barriers, how to use them, when to use them, and when not to use them becomes more important the colder it gets. I dont have experience in extremely cold temperatures but my understanding is that if you use breathable insulation at extremely cold temperatures you risk insensible perspiration condensing inside the insulation as the dew point temperature moves inside the bag itself. Vapor condensing inside the bag creates moisture inside the bag and is just as troubling as sweat or any other moisture getting inside the bag. When this happens the insulation may not dry out at the temperatures you find yourself in and can accumulate over the days you are exposed to extremely cold temperatures. This can be a troubling phenomenon if it occurs as your bag can become increasingly heavier and less efficient. For most of us this isnt an issue as I am referring to extremely cold conditions and we shouldnt be concerned about the dew point moving inside the bag itself at the more moderate cold conditions that most of us camp or backpack in. I only mention it because it should be of interest to the few individuals that are camping or backpacking in extremely cold temperatures.
Dave Womble
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designer of the Speer Segmented Pad Extender, SnugFit Underquilt, and
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City Of Rocks National Reserve
""On Belay!" Occasionally, you can hear the short communications between climbing partners on the towers and granite formations before you. Listen carefully and you might hear the click of the quickdraw (carabiner) or the clanking of cams, nuts, or chocks on a climber's rack as they ascend such routes as "Scream Cheese", "Crack of Doom", or "Skyline."
City of Rocks receives over 100,000 national and international visitors annually, and most have come to climb in this quiet, western setting. The Reserve provides one of the highest quality granite face-climbing areas in the United States, offering over 600 traditional and sport climbing routes ranging from the easy 5.6 to the difficult 5.13. While climbing is inherently risky, it is made safer through quality gear, good communication between partners, and most of all skill. Have you come to "on-sight," "Flash" or "red point?" Climb on" "
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Also notice a couple of climbers on the top of "Morning Glory Spire".
Idaho is a state located in the northwestern region of the United States of America. Idaho is the 14th largest state by area, ranks 39th by population and 53rd by population density of the 50 United States. Idaho was the 43rd state to be admitted into the Union, on July 3, 1890. Idaho is landlocked, being bordered by Canada on the north and the states of Washington and Oregon on the west, Nevada and Utah on the south and Montana and Wyoming on the east. Idaho is nicknamed "The Gem State" because nearly every known gemstone is found within the state. Idaho is also famous for producing about one third of all potatoes grown in the USA. Idaho also hosts the largest barrel cheese factory in the world, producing 120K metric tons of cheese per year. There is some ambiguity as to where the name "Idaho" came from, but it is generally believed to have simply been made up by George M. Willing. There is a possibility it was derived from a Native American phrase. Idaho is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population was about 1.58M in July 2011 with 84% being Caucasian, 11.2% Hispanic and 1.1% Native American. The state capital and largest city is Boise.Source: wikipedia


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Welcome to The Ratchet, as in ratchet up the accountability in politics across California. It's Prop Zero's new weekly weigh-in from contributor Keith Esparros. Let us know what you think in the comments below.
Way back in November we had had it with this budget nonsense, and demanded something be done.
Holding legislators' paychecks hostage seemed like an idea whose time had come.
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Treasurer John Chiang says he'll follow through on voter-approved Prop 25 and withhold lawmakers' pay if they fail to pass a budget by the stated deadline of June 15.
And if this bit of political intimidation produces a timely budget, what does it say about our elected officials' real motivation?
California legislators make north of $116,000 a year. Add to that their $173 per diem, and that's a lot more than state legislators anywhere else in the country.
So lawmakers have a real incentive to get their job done and get a budget passed on time.
Should the mandated deadlines actually be met, there will be a great show of backslapping and self-congratulating for a job well done.
Gov. Jerry Brown will crow about his leadership, and the Assemblymen and Senators will talk about how hard they worked to come up with a budget that they admit is difficult, but is somehow fair.
And then they'll go cash their paychecks.
Is that really what we have to do to get them to do their jobs? We elect them to act in the best interest of us, the citizens of California.
They should have been meeting these deadlines every year; not just when they've been threatened.
Now if the budget agreement is reached on time, they will look like they have acted in the best interest of their bank accounts.
And that's a shame.
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For shut-ins, there's a TV channel on board that shows the view from the bow 24/7. I assume it's for people who are too lazy to leave their rooms, or honeymooners. It makes you think the cruise line got their HBO cut off, and decided to show this instead.
After we left the gorgeous fjord, we were treated to some less-then spectacular scenery: The ship's Hairy Chest contest.
I have no idea where this odd tradition started, but it's a regular feature on Cruiseship Lines. Usually it consists of 6-8 muscular guys strutting their stuff in front of the crowd, while ladies cheer them on.
On previous cruises I've taken the volunteers were muscular young guys. On this trip, however, there apparently weren't any. As a result the Hairy Chest Contest looked more like a Belly-Bucking competition. It was made even more comical by the fact that the first 3 guys who volunteered were named Harry, Dick, and Randy.
This not-so-sightly competition was followed by an ice carving demonstration. They hauled a huge block of ice on deck, and one bright passenger immediately asked, "Do you use real ice for these? Or is it just water made to look like ice?"
Afterwards I wanted to relax in the hot tub. The one by the covered pool was overloaded with kids, so I went to the one in the spa. There's an area with deck chairs next to it, and, for no obvious reason, a statue of a butt.
(No, I have no idea what the electronic gadget is. Maybe some sort of digital prostate examining device)
While I was soaking a young couple came in playing "pass the toddler" back and forth. They told me that they'd taken this cruise specifically to celebrate the child's 1st birthday, because they wanted to do something he'd remember. They'd read about how kids don't remember their first B-days, and so they wanted to do something unforgettable. Their reasoning was that by doing something like an Alaskan cruise (as opposed to a cake with candles in the yard) that he'd definitely remember his first birthday.
I smiled and listened politely. They were O-SO special.
Afterwards I got into the elevator, and was joined by a couple from Germany. Mrs. German looked me over. I'm dripping wet, with a soaked towel and T-shirt over my shoulders. She says something in German, and her husband smiles, then looks at me and says "She says you smell like a pool".
On the way to dinner I passed through a lounge, where a Filipino bartender was setting up for the night. I was treated to him doing an enthusiastic version of "Hello Dolly". I wanted to applaud. I respect people who, like me, have no vocal talent whatsoever, but still belt them out with enthusiasm.
There's always one person on every cruise who's determined to lose weight on the ship, and try to make everyone around them feel guilty about it (a lady last year brought a freaking scale on the ship). At dinner, between random beeping from the kids' Gameboys and my parents' vitamin watch, I saw the featured one on the Smorgasbord.
This lady in her 40's was sitting across the aisle from us, in a group of girlfriends. As these types always do, she felt the need to tell her companions how much fat, salt, and calories were in their dishes (I'll be surprised if she isn't swimming back to Seattle in a day or two).
Of course, all of us are ordering excellent food, brought by our wonderful waitstaff. So what did this babe do?
She had her own food, from the PutridSystem diet plan. Cardboard bread! Taste-free treats! Mystery pasta!
She'd whip these miniature, pleasure-free, semi-edible items from her bag with great drama, and loudly read the nutritional contents (such as they may be) to her friends and anyone else who could hear, happily comparing them to whatever her friends were eating.
I have nothing against healthy eating and losing weight. I recommend it to my patients, and sometimes even make half-hearted attempts at it myself (Lipitor, take me away!). But the ship's menu does feature several healthy options. Even if you don't want them, I don't understand why you feel that makes you superior to others, or have to try and make them feel like shit.
One nice feature this ship has is a guy named Ram, who's the dining room magician. He has a great sleight-of-hand, and is just awesome for entertainment and at keeping kids distracted while dinner is coming. He hasn't, however, thus far been able to make Miss PutridSystem disappear. Maybe if I tip him...
My kids are having a hard time accepting that Cruiseship Lines, as a cost saving measure, has stopped the "Meet the Captain" party with dancing. Since it involved free drinks I liked it too. Marie sees it as a great time to show off her pseudo-convulsive dance moves to an adoring audience, and to drag me down with her in the process. We won't win any contests, but do have fun. And isn't that what Summer vacations are for?


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Hydronic systems may further be classified by factors such as:
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By Jake Crosby
This fallacious and bizarre new allegation of Seth Mnookin's came in his first and only blog post about me in which he wrote (boldface mine):
"Jake, as I told you the first time you accosted me at a talk, in New York City in June 2011 — you remember that, right? It was the time you refused to shake my hand and instead jabbed me in the chest in front of dozens of people…"
And yet, in my article about our June 2011 encounter which he did not dispute, I wrote (boldface added for emphasis):
"He [Seth Mnookin] continued about how I'm not going to convince him of my views and he won't convince me of his, then he put out his hand, which I felt was merely the pinnacle of his suck-up ploy.
"So you aren't gonna shake my hand, now? C'mon!"
Despite my hesitation, I shook his hand."
What's so remarkable is that not only does Seth Mnookin's claim that I jabbed him in the chest instead of shaking his hand contradict what actually happened, but what actually happened was chronicled by me in my article that ran online one week after our exchange. His account of my jabbing him in the chest, among other fallacies of his about our encounters, came in a July 25th, 2013 blog post about me ironically titled:
"Crosby's labyrinth, or why I couldn't stop myself from replying to the vaccine conspiracy theorist to end all conspiracy theorists."
That's right – according to Mnookin, I'm not just the vaccine conspiracy theorist to end vaccine conspiracy theorists, but "to end all conspiracy theorists." He responded to a comment I left on one of his blog posts slamming Jenny McCarthy for her views on vaccines after she was confirmed by ABC to co-host "The View" this fall.
His response was basically fictitious accounts of our past encounters that are directly contradicted by actual, verifiable facts that I detailed shortly thereafter. His description of our handshake as a jab in the chest was only the beginning.
Seth's fiction
I accost him.
He asks me to shake his hand.
I refuse.
I jab him in the chest.
What really happened
He slanders Dr. Andrew Wakefield.
I defend Dr. Wakefield.
Mnookin shouts at me.
He verifies who I am.
He tells me who he is (even though I already know who he is).
I apologize for not introducing myself initially.
He asks me to shake his hand.
I shake his hand.
Not only does he give a false account of what happened during my first encounter with him, but also my second encounter with him where he booted me out of the room starting with his claim that the event I attended was "invitation-only."
In summary, the contrast between what Seth Mnookin said happened and what actually happened goes like this:
Seth's fiction
I crash his invitation-only event.
I introduce myself to his televised image and begin my "monologue."
In the middle of my "monologue," he disconnects.
While he's disconnected, I'm asked to leave (presumably because I was not invited).
His connection comes back on.
By the time it does, I've already left.
The first thing he says after his connection is up is that I shouldn't have been removed.
What really happened
I try to sign up for his event online.
I'm put on a waitlist.
I'm let into his event off the waitlist.
I introduce myself to his televised image and begin asking my question.
Suddenly he disconnects.
He returns and repeats the last words he heard me say.
I continue my question.
He cuts me off and accuses me of disrupting past events of his.
I'm ejected.
As I'm being ejected, he proceeds to answer my question unchallenged.
He's still rambling even as I'm walking out the door.
After giving a heavily fabricated account of what happened at his event where I was ejected, he then attempted to address my very first article about him: "Seth Mnookin, Bob's Your Uncle!"
He tried to play down his uncle Robert Mnookin's connections to the mother-in-law of vaccine industry front group/"autism charity" president and founder Alison Singer, as well as to a board member of her organization.
Seth's fiction
His uncle is presumably just a professor specializing in negotiation and mediation at Harvard Law School.
Alison Singer's mother-in-law only taught mediation there "at various times."
Her colleague, an Autism Science Foundation board member, has no direct connection to Harvard Law School.
To have known of Seth Mnookin, Singer's mother-in-law and her colleague would have had to have looked "into the backgrounds of everyone they've ever worked with, served on a board with, or had professional dealings with."
Seth Mnookin took a huge professional risk by parroting the talking points of a front group for a highly profitable and partially taxpayer-funded branch of the pharmaceutical industry.
What really happened
Seth Mnookin's uncle chairs Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation.
The mother-in-law of the founder of Autism Science Foundation, a vaccine industry front group that poses as an autism charity, taught mediation in the program for 25 years according to her professional bio.
One of the mother-in-law's colleagues co-taught mediation with her for that same time period.
That colleague also serves on the board of the Autism Science Foundation.
Seth Mnookin writes a book that echos the pharma talking points of the Autism Science Foundation.
In exchange, he gets rewarded with two years of media appearances, speaking engagements, book awards, a forum at PLoS blogs and even an MIT professorship.
Seth Mnookin's accuracy at reporting events is truly dismal, as his own blog post about me shows. His year-and-a-half to two-year-after-the-fact accounts of what happened during our encounters are not only contradicted by what actually happened, but by what I wrote actually happened within a week of those encounters. Not surprisingly, his denial in his blog post that he specifically called my question to him at Harvard four months ago "insigificant minutia" that is "devoid of facts" is blatently false.
Of all his fictitious accounts in his blog post about our encounters, however, his suddenly claiming two years after the fact that our handshake was me jabbing him in the chest takes the cake. In fact, it takes the whole bakery.
Seth Mnookin then discusses my ouster from Age of Autism, insinuating I was banished for claiming Age of Autism is conspiring with government officials to cover up vaccine injury. The latest article stemming from my ongoing investigation into the congressional activities of Age of Autism sponsors can be found in the following post: "Mark Blaxill Publicly Attacks Critics." Nowhere in this article or in any article of mine written prior do I allege that those who hijacked the congressional autism hearings conspired to do so with those who have covered up vaccines' role in causing the autism epidemic in the first place.
Addendum, August 2, 2013: Age of Autism's UK Editor John Stone took Seth Mnookin to task in the comments of his blog over his fictitious accounts of our past encounters, specifically Mnookin's bogus claim that I jabbed him in the chest.
It is appalling that a serious scientific publisher would give houseroom to such a column, which has nothing to do with scientific argument. I have had one or two disagreements with Jake but I don't believe that he jabbed you "in front of witnesses", and why mention it now instead of taking action at the time? A slight matter of character assassination aside it is a non-sequitur and ad hominem.
Whatever, Jake made a material point about how the Institute of Medicine selected its evidence – he did not even get into how they pre-arranged it (IOM closed meeting 12 Jan 2001) –
before we also note the fundamental problem that IOM preferred highly flawed statistical analysis to case studies of injured children (some of whom have received awards quietly from the VICP as they admitted to Sharyl Attkisson).
"The government has never compensated, nor has it ever been ordered to compensate, any case based on a determination that autism was actually caused by vaccines. We have compensated cases in which children exhibited an encephalopathy, or general brain disease. Encephalopathy may be accompanied by a medical progression of an array of symptoms including autistic behavior, autism, or seizures."
An identical statement was given to David Kirby, reported in Huffington Post.
What we are really dealing with here is journalist led science. Anyone who steps out of line has to be taken out: Wakefield, McCarthy, Crosby…If I may say so it seems me that with all the hatchet work across the media on Jenny McCarthy the real issue is that she is a parent who stood up and called a spade a spade. And the things that she described happen: they've even been compensated on the quiet.
Jake Crosby is editor of Autism Investigated and is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a BA in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy. He currently attends The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services where he is completing his candidacy for an MPH in epidemiology.


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Wild turbulence, freezing temperatures and dizzying heights are just some of the obstacles facing the Coast Guard in Kodiak, Alaska and other AK bases. This team of highly trained swimmers and rescue pilots race the clock and battle fierce winds; dense forests; icy waters, huge waves and more to execute critical assignments such as perilous search and rescue missions or transporting severely ill or injured people from remote locations to the nearest hospital. The series also explores what life is like off-duty on the base, as the group enjoys the Alaskan wilderness and tight-knit local community in their free time.
Third season episodes will include Captain Melissa Rivera, the first female commanding officer of Air Station Kodiak, taking the reigns, with operations as varied as a daring rescue mission to save 18 souls trapped aboard an oilrig to a hunter trapped in the mountains.
WHO: "Coast Guard Alaska" is produced by Al Roker Entertainment for The Weather Channel, with Al Roker and C. Russell Muth serving as executive producers.
WHEN/ WHERE: "Coast Guard Alaska" season three premieres Wednesday, July 17, at 9 p.m. ET on The Weather Channel and includes seven new 60-minute episodes, followed by six more episodes in October.
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Caught in the Act!
Plus: Lauren Conrad hits the boutiques, Petra Nemcova and more
• Justin Bieber and his Shia LaBeouf–adoring girlfriend Selena Gomez stuck together for a shopping trip at AX Armani Exchange in New York – literally. The couple strolled hand-in-hand through the two-level store, showing off plenty of PDA. Gomez also helped her beau pick out some clothes – specifically some gray and white cotton T-shirts.
• In L.A., a newly single Lauren Conrad was cheerful while shopping with a friend at Madison in Brentwood. The reality star took her time in the boutique, and left with some sweatpants and a few tops. According to an onlooker, she didn't chat much with store employees but was a very pleasant, quiet customer.
• Petra Nemcova had two male dinner companions with her at Kittichai in N.Y.C. The supermodel was summer casual during the meal, sitting at a table near the restaurant's reflecting pool. According to an onlooker, the trio seemed to be talking business.
• Minnie Driver and son Henry enjoyed a sunny shopping day together at Malibu Country Mart. The two explored the shops, and the actress was spotted toting a bag from Toy Crazy. After their adventure, the two headed to play on the swings at the children's playground.
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EDMONTON - While oilsands firms have made significant environmental improvements in recent years — from using less fresh water, emitting less sulphur and reclaiming land into treed hills and meadows — images of huge tailings ponds have tarred the industry.
Because the fine clays — part of the sand, water and residual bitumen mix left after the bitumen is extracted — won't settle out, companies had to build more and more ponds to contain the backlog.
But recent technological advances, new, tougher standards from the provincial regulator and a decision by the oilsands companies late in 2010 to share existing tailings research, should see an end to most of them within the next few years. Here are some highlights:
Suncor Energy
It's new tailings management process, called TRO, looks like a game-changer. The liquid tailings are mixed with a binding material and spread over a sloping beach in multiple thin layers.
Suncor plans to spend $1.2 billion over the next couple of years to build and expand the system, which can remove water from the liquid tailings in a matter of weeks. Early success has already enabled Suncor to cancel its plans for five additional tailings ponds, and it will likely reduce the number of ponds at its site from eight to just one as it gets to work on quickly reclaiming its older ponds.
Last September, Suncor marked an industry milestone by becoming the first oilsands company to complete reclamation of a tailings pond, with thousands of trees and bushes planted on the former 220-hectare riverside site formerly known as Pond 1.
The first dike was built in 1967 when Suncor began operations, but the walls were heightened again and again as the tailings refused to settle, leaving the firm with the only one option — to build more and more ponds.
The firm was the first to reclaim dry areas beside mining pits, now home to bison herds, and will soon completely reclaim its first former tailings pond. It is noteworthy that this site will include the first recreated fen — a low, wet area that is biologically rich and common through the boreal area.
Syncrude uses various methods to handle its tailings, including water capping — pumping fresh water to cap a tailings pond and promote settling — and composite tails techniques, which involve adding gypsum to thicken the tailings.
Currently it is putting a big effort into its centrifuge technology, with extensive field tests now complete and commercial-scale implementation on the way. The technology involves putting tailings through spinning vessels which remove the water. The resulting paste is easily handled and quickly reclaimed.
Canadian Natural Resources
CNRL's Horizon project is the leader in testing carbon dioxide to help settle out the tailings, injecting the liquefied gas into the slurry before the tailings enter the pond where it reacts to form carbonic acid. This reaction changes the acidity of the tailings mixtures and allows the fine clays, silt and sand to settle quickly and leave cleaner water which can be immediately recycled into the bitumen extraction process.
When the new Horizon facility is expanded in the next few years, another new treatment will be added. Spinning chambers will remove water from the coarse sand, and thickeners will remove the water from the fine clays, silts and sand. These dewatered tailings streams will then be combined with waste CO2 from the plant. More water will be released when the tailings are deposited, and the CO2 will react chemically to form mineral carbonates, basically sedimentary rock.
Shell Energy
Since 2006, Shell has been working on a technology that involves collecting fine tailings from a discharge pond and adding chemicals to accelerate de-watering, a system called atmospheric fines drying (AFD). The material is then placed on a sloping surface to enhance further drying by evaporation. The 300-square-metre test area will contain 250,000 tonnes of sand and clay by the end of the year. A second, larger test area will open this year.
Titanium Corp.
The Edmonton-based firm sees rare minerals like zircon and titanium, as well as bitumen and solvents, in tailings. Its technology, run recently in a pilot project at the federal CanmetENERGY in Devon, proved a success. The firm aims to partner with Suncor, Syncrude or Canadian Natural Resources this year to build a commercial-sized, stand-alone project.
Titanium's technology works on the froth tailings — the most concentrated stream of the two tailings streams that pour into the ponds. And its current system works only with naphtha-based processes used by Syncrude, Suncor and CNRL. A second system, designed to work with the paraffinic tailings produced by Shell and Imperial's Kearl, is in early tests.
Titanium estimates it can recover 400,000 barrels of solvent (which now evaporates from the ponds) and up to three million barrels of bitumen at each plant every year, which means extra output for the plant — and extra royalties for Alberta.
A separate mineral recovery plant using equipment from the mining industry would handle the coarse, mineral-rich sands.


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When an athlete realizes that he's reached the upper limits of his skill, he either accepts it and plays on. Or he learns to play dirty. Like the vicious ginger lad (No. 2) in this video, who was recently spotted in Hong Kong behaving like a human scythe. The boy commits several dirty fouls in the video, but they're love taps compared to what you'll find at 1:36, when he boots a kid on the other team in the face.
The backstory to this savagery can be found on a blog dedicated to Hongkonger happenings. As the blog explains, the thug child plays for the under-12 team for the English Schools Foundation, a consortium of international schools modeled on the British system and set up for expatriates, although students from all backgrounds now attend. The other team is called Kitchee. They'd apparently thrashed ESF in a previous game. The thrashing continued in the next game. Ginger thug grew angry. Now he's succeeded in touching off a minor race-tinged class war in Hong Kong, if that blog is to be believed. Nice one.
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I've been struggling with a tummy issue, so my friend Carla made this super cute get well card for me.
My pen-pal, Becky, made this journal set for me earlier this year and I have been saving it for our trip to document everything we do and see and especially to document the photos I take so I don't forget the details when it is time to do my scrapbooking.
But then, my friend, Jackie, embroidered this amazing vinyl note pad holder for me.
Decisions, Decisions!
I am so grateful for such thoughtful friends.
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33 Holy Martyrs of Melitene - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 4
Your thirty-three holy martyrs, O Lord, / through their sufferings have received incorruptible crowns from You, our God. / For having Your strength, they laid low their adversaries, / and shattered the powerless boldness of demons. / Through their intercessions, save our souls!
Kontakion — Tone 2
The radiant choir of martyrs, the light-bearing company, / spiritually descends to us, enlightening the Church with brilliant rays. / Therefore as we celebrate their honored memory, / we ask You, our Savior: / through their prayers deliver us from misfortunes / so that we may sing to You: "Alleluia."


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This beautiful purple 1957 Lincoln Premier Convertible sold for $31,000
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This Formal Black and Flamingo Pink 1959 Desoto Firesweep sold for $53,000
Bidding on the 1959 Oldsmobile 88 convertible seen here was closed at $35,000. According to the auctioneer $40,000 would have bought the car.
Despite some paint and body issues this 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible complete with Tri-Power was bid to $112,000 on Saturday. The car was being offered in post sale for $125,000. We would have taken the initial high bid.
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It's Christmastime again, and that wasn't my decision — the department store across from my office already has Christmas decorations on it. Since corporations are willing to dedicate two months out of the year to taking your money, I feel it's time I remind you that a new computer should not be on your shopping list.
Why? Well I'm glad you asked that.
- Financial downturn. Considering how poorly the world markets are doing these days, you might do better saving all that money for something important, like food.
Yes, it's a sad fact that most of the American financial sector was grossly mismanaged and ridiculously inflated, and now it appears that the average consumer — worldwide — is going to suffer for it. Without deviating too far from the focus of this blog, let's just say that by summertime, you might wish you still had that US$2000, instead of having dumped it into a new computer. I know some people think this hiccup is just that — a hiccup — and I'll only say that I hope they're right. For everyone's sake.
Regardless of your personal prognosis for the world state of economic affairs, US$2000 in your pocket is going to look a lot better than a shiny new computer on your desk, come June.
- Financial burden. So long as we're talking financial repercussions, most of the new computers I see in my local electronics shops are quite expensive really. Even the average, middle-market PC is easily more than US$1200, and anything with considerable power to it is going to creep quickly up to US$2000.
Unless you're a teenager, that's a lot of money. (Most of the teenagers I work with have a hard time assigning real value to quantities of money.) Think of all the other things you could do with US$2000, if you were willing to scrap the idea of buying a new machine. What other improvements could you make in your life, if you don't spend the money on a computer? What else could benefit from your financial largesse?
- Instantaneous depreciation. And so long as we're talking about the actual, tangible price of a new computer, remember that the instant you press the "Purchase" button, your computer is no longer worth the price you paid. New machines, upon arrival at their destination, are immediately worth about a quarter less than the buying price — sometimes as much as a third less — as soon as the tape on the box is cut.
Why? Because there's always something newer out there, and as soon as you take possession, your machine is used, and loses it's value. I'm speaking from experience here, many times over. And you probably know what I'm talking about: Not even vehicles depreciate as fast as electronics.
What's the corollary to this statement? That buying a computer on credit is, without a doubt, the worst thing you could ever do with your money. Not only will the total payments exceed the original list price, but by the time you finish making those payments, the machine you own will be worth only a fraction of it's price. It's a sad moment when someone realizes their US$2000 computer is only worth about US$300 — I've watched those faces fall. You don't want that to happen to you. Always pay cash for electronics. Period.
- Environmental implications. For every new machine you buy, Mother Nature takes a hit. Now I don't necessarily categorize myself as a tree-hugger, but you have to ask yourself, what's happening to all these leftover computers? Where do they all go?
Sure, some get "recycled," in a manner of speaking. But computers have been in mass production for what, two decades? three decades? A lot longer than the computer "recycling" efforts have. And these machines are not exactly biodegradable. I owned probably a grand total of three C64's between August 1982 and late 1990-something, as well as an SX-64 at one time. Where are they now? I mean, where are the actual metal-and-plastic husks? Probably in a landfill, or worse, carted off to a developing nation, sold as garbage and lying in a heap in the sun.
This might not concern you either, if your sense of environmental or cultural morality isn't attuned to it. But it should. Buying a new computer isn't a two-year adventure in technological gimmickry, it's a 30-year debit against the environment and your children's environment. Check out Annie Leonard's "The Story of Stuff," if my argument isn't strong enough to make you think about it.
- Rampant materialism. Reality check: If you think you need a new computer — or for that matter, a new iPod, or a new cell phone, or a new car, or a new house, or a new wardrobe … guess what? You're being played. Advertising and marketing aren't just college majors, they're exercises in human conditioning, and you're the test subject for an entire science focused on making you buy. And Christmas is the worst time for this.
And that "urge" you feel to pick up a newer, "faster" computer is probably — no, definitely tied to the advertisements you see, the images that are fed to you and the status that marketers and ad campaigns attach to new products. That quad-core laptop you're drooling over, the one with the blinking LEDs and 30-inch widescreen LCD? Well, you're drooling over it because corporations want you to drool over it. Don't doubt that for a second.
This isn't anything new, and it's not confined to the technology sector; people have been the subject of greed campaigns by their fellow humans for quite some time. Sad, but true. So stand up for yourself, shake off the psychological weight of marketing ploys, and realize that "new" does not equal "necessary."
- Stuff does not equal love. I know some people think a new computer is a great gift, and it in most cases it is. I will admit to having bought new computers for family members, and I don't regret it. But Christmas is when corporations rely on your benevolence to make money, and it's unfortunate that a soulless entity like a company can hold so much sway over what you might call affection for a loved one.
Again, without deviating too far from the focus of this site, a new computer isn't going to prove you love your wife or your kids or your dog any more than a hug. If you aren't willing to take my word for it, at least listen once to the gospel according to Reverend Billy.
- You don't need it. In all reality, do you really need a new computer? or do you just want one, because your "old" one is "slow?"
Chances are, it's the latter. Most of the computers I run across — short of actual, physical damage or failure at the component level — aren't broken, they're just poorly tended. Most of the "problems" people have with their computers (and I'm speaking to the Windows crowd right now) can be solved with a fresh installation and a conservative software setup. Even "slow" computers often come back to life once they're wiped, reinstalled and the personal files restored.
Of course, if you use Linux, like me, you're probably getting a lot more speed out of your computer than Microsoft or Intel ever anticipated you'd get. Or wanted you to get, for that matter.
- Upgrades are cheaper. Admit it: It's just the hard drive you want. Or a new graphics card. And even just an improvement over your existing video card is probably enough. Pick up a secondhand graphics card — take advantage of some poor sucker who bought it new — and enjoy the improvement. How much cheaper than a new laptop is a new laptop battery? The money you spend is a fraction of the cost of a new rig, and believe it or not, might even improve the value of the machine you have. Because …
- Increasing long-range value. I already told you that the value of a computer falls like a rock as soon as you cut the tape on the box. That's true. But what I neglected to mention was that, in the long run, a well-kept, well-tended computer will actually increase in value, sometimes to well over what it originally cost.
Remember those Commodore 64s I mentioned? Any one of those, if it was still in good shape and if I had taken care of it, and kept it in working condition, would have fetched an amazing price on eBay. A complete system is worth even more. A system with accessories is astronomical. And that SX-64 I had, in its original box? It's worth it's weight in gold. (Okay, maybe not its weight — those things were heavy.)
A decade after you buy a computer — when you can probably, legitimately think about getting a new one — you can expect the price of your machine to creep up, and up, and up. The machines I have now are all at least eight years old, and I've been pleasantly surprised when I check the going rates on eBay. Parted out I could easily recoup any and all of the money I put into them. As a whole, they're worth almost as much. I expect the value to increase even further in the next few years. Not that I would part with them, of course, because …
- Emotional attachment. After years of using them, and finding all the quirks and solving all the problems and making all the upgrades, I'm not inclined to get rid of them. I enjoy using them, and I'm quite satisfied with the way they do the job. There might come a time when a part fails, or something doesn't work right, but my attachment to the machine makes repairing it more attractive than replacing it.
This isn't peculiar behavior, if you use cars as an analogy again. Think about all the automobile fanatics who polish and buff their 1973 Ford Galaxie 500s until they glow, then cruise slowly around town with a self-satisfied look on their faces. You won't ever sell those people a new car, because they love their old ones too much.
Believe it or not, you can become that attached to your old computer, to the point where a new one isn't an option. You have to learn about it, learn to love it, learn to take care of it, and eventually cherish it. It's not unreasonable to think that any possession can endear you to it. A computer shouldn't be any different.
To borrow some famous words … and so, this is Christmas. It's you against the marketers, the corporations, your own perceptions and misconceptions. I'm not telling you a new computer wouldn't be fun, or exciting, or a good gift. But I am telling you that there are some solid reasons you shouldn't dump your money into a new computer.
And if you're one of those lucky people, and you simply must spend the money and you don't care how, do something worthwhile with it. I, for one, will thank you. 😀


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From gentlemen's attire in the early colonial period to post-World War II outfits and contemporary design, Australian Men's Style features some of the milestones in the evolution of Australian menswear. Exploring aspects of men's clothing and accessories over the past 200 years, this display highlights a selection of objects primarily from the MAAS collection to accompany the exhibition Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715–2015 (additional entry $20).
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Most of LG's messaging phones in the U.S. have been geared toward CDMA carriers, like the LG Rumor 2 for Sprint and the LG enV2 for Verizon Wireless. Not so with LG's latest messaging phone, the LG Xenon, available from AT&T Wireless.
Not only does the Xenon have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for messaging, it also has a large touch-screen interface similar to the one on the LG Vu. Unlike the Vu however, the Xenon has a home screen customizable with widgets, dedicated pages for favorite contacts and applications, and something called the "Annunciator," which is essentially a drop-down menu of certain shortcuts. Aside from that, the Xenon has almost the same features as the Vu: a 2-megapixel camera, a music player, a full HTML browser, stereo Bluetooth, and more.
Though we weren't thrilled with the Web browsing experience, we were overall pleased with the Xenon and think it makes an excellent messaging phone for AT&T customers. The LG Xenon is available for $99.99 with a two-year service agreement.
At first glance, the LG Xenon appears to be just another touch-screen phone. Measuring 4.16 inches long by 2.11 inches wide by 0.62 inch thick, the Xenon has smooth, sleek lines all around, with a touch of chrome around the border. It's a little smaller than the LG Vu and a little thicker as well. The Xenon is fairly lightweight at 3.81 ounces, and it's slim enough to fit in a front pocket.
Dominating its entire front surface is a large 2.8-inch touch-screen display. It's smaller than the 3-inch displays on the LG Dare and the LG Vu, but it still looks good. It supports 262,000 colors and 240x400 pixels, which result in great-looking graphics and colorful images. You can view the date, time, battery life, signal strength, and photo caller ID. Even when the screen is locked, you can see the date and time in a screen overlay. You can set the brightness, the backlight timer, and the font size. For dialing fonts, you can set the color as well.
Along the top of the screen are three icons, each of which corresponds to one of three customizable standby screens. You get one just for your favorite contacts, one for the home screen, and one for your favorite application shortcuts. All standby screens have four shortcut icons along the bottom, which correspond to the phone dialer, the contacts list, the messaging menu, and the main menu. The main menu interface is similar to the one on the Vu, with four tabs along the right to differentiate applications. You get one tab for Phone-related apps, one for Multimedia, one for My Stuff (which includes the media gallery plus productivity tools), and another for Settings.
For the favorite contacts screen, just follow the instructions to add a contact from your phone book. The contacts will then appear as small icons with the person's name, phone number, and photo. You can have up to three pages of favorite contacts, and you can arrange them on the screen however you wish by dragging and dropping the icons, or you can align them with the grid. You can also fix the icons so they don't change position with the screen orientation. As for the shortcuts screen, you can add up to nine shortcuts. To add and remove shortcuts, simply press and hold down on a shortcut icon.
The home screen is also customizable with a variety of widgets, similar to the TouchWiz interface on some Samsung phones. On the bottom left of the Xenon's home screen is a little right arrow that opens up to reveal a tray of widgets. There are only six to choose from, though; there's an analog clock, a world clock, the calendar, sticky notes, the image gallery, and the music player. To add a widget to the home screen, just drag and drop it on the page. You can then close the tray by pressing the little left arrow.
The LG Xenon also has a drop-down shortcuts menu it calls the "Annunciator." Simply tap the top part of any screen, and a list of shortcuts will appear. You can go directly to the music player, toggle the Bluetooth connection on and off, set your ring and vibration profile, send a new text message, send a new mobile e-mail, check your voice mail, start the instant messenger for either Yahoo, AOL, or Windows Live, set your alarm clock, or view the calendar.
As with all touch-screen handsets, you use only your fingers (or a stylus if you have one) to navigate the interface. It felt quite intuitive, and we liked that there was haptic feedback to let us know when our touch has registered. There's also Touch Calibration to ensure proper accuracy and responsiveness. Do note there's a slight learning curve involved. When we first started using it, we occasionally had issues when scrolling through lists--sometimes we would accidentally select something by mistake. We did learn to deal with this eventually, though. Dialing numbers went pretty smoothly, because of the large numbers on the virtual keypad. There's also a built-in internal accelerometer, but it only works with certain applications, like the Web browser--it would turn the screen orientation from portrait to landscape mode when tilted 90 degrees, for example.
To make texting easier, the LG Xenon has a slide-out QWERTY keyboard on the side. Just slide the phone to the right, and a full four-line QWERTY keyboard will appear on your left. When you slide the keyboard out, the screen orientation will change from portrait mode to landscape mode. We really like the keys on this keyboard--they're well-spaced and feel very tactile, making it easy to type with speed. We especially like that there are specialized keys on the keyboard, like a dedicated text message key, a dedicated mobile e-mail key, a Web browser key, a phone book key, an @ symbol key, and a .com key. The latter two are especially useful when entering e-mail addresses, and of course the .com key is good for entering Web URLs. If you prefer not to use the keyboard, you can choose to enter in text via a virtual T9 keypad, but we see no reason to do so.


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Is there another maximum than 2^address_bits for the global_size?
I try to pass a bit more than 100 000 000 and clEnqueueNDRangeKernel return INVALID_VALUE.
I work under vista64 with last nVidia drivers.
Is there another maximum than 2^address_bits for the global_size?
I try to pass a bit more than 100 000 000 and clEnqueueNDRangeKernel return INVALID_VALUE.
I work under vista64 with last nVidia drivers.
No. The spec puts no limits on the size except for the size of the type holding the data, which is a size_t. The OpenCL implementation is responsible for breaking up your requested global size into something that will work on the hardware. So if your size is not being accepted it sounds like a bug with the Nvidia implementation.
I would suggest you make sure that your global size is a multiple of 32, though. Otherwise the driver may be forced to use a local size that is non-optimal for the card and you will get substantially worse performance.
To be accurate I use (134217728,1,1) for the global and (512,1,1) for he local.
Without any nVidia account, is it possible to report OpenCL driver bugs somewhere? Perhaps nVidia guys read this forum?
Did you verify via clGetKernelWorkgroupInfo that that local size is valid for your kernel? Since that's the maximum the hardware supports, it will only be okay if your kernel is using very few registers. (Or you can just pass in NULL for the local size.)
Very interesting, actually I put 512, the max of my device capability. But now I've tried to let the implementation choose the right local size and the problem is the same.
If we use to much register, should the return not be CL_OUT_OF_RESOURCES ?
You have to put in a number for the total local workgroup size that is less than or equal to what is returned by the clGetKernelWorkgroupInfo call. I believe you should get CL_INVALID_WORK_GROUP_SIZE if the size is not valid.
Thank you very much, I forgot this "clGetKernelWorkgroupInfo" call… It's just essential.
In fact I have an invalid_value as soon as the ratio is over 65535 … I guess this ratio is stored by drivers in a too short variable :)…
That sounds like a hardware limit that the Nvidia driver is not handling correctly. I would suggest filing a bug against them if you can.
I can't with no account (I just retried to create one…).
195.181 nVidia beta drivers don't fix the problem.
Can it be possible to create a zone on this forum to report implementation bugs, that manufacturers could read?
In NVIDIA OpenCL guide we can read :
The maximum size of each dimension of a grid of thread blocks is 65535;
So there is a limitation, fixed by nVidia, which is'nt define by specification and that we can't query with API… This constraint limits a bit the portability
It is strange that you can use arbitrary sizes on Nvidia cards on MacOS X but not with Nvidia's own drivers. All they would have to do is breakup the runtime kernel execution into 65k sized chunks since each execution is necessarily independent.


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Unemployment rate dips below 8%... Will it have an impact?... Is Romney's plan really a $5 trillion tax cut?... Yesterday was a tale of two different campaigns -- one with momentum, the other with something to prove… Romney cleans up his "47%" comment, calling it "completely wrong"… Two points on the return of "Moderate Mitt"… Democrats'public angst (comparing Obama's debate performance to Donald Verrilli's SCOTUS oral arguments)… Obama stumps in Virginia and Ohio, while Romney hits Virginia and Florida.
The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd reports on the latest buzz from the campaign trail.
*** Unemployment rate dips below 8% : A month ago, after what was considered a strong Democratic convention and a subpar one for Republicans, the Romney campaign eagerly looked to the monthly jobs report to change the subject. Now the dynamic is reversed: After what was considered Romney's strong debate performance and Obama's subpar one, Democrats were looking to today's job numbers for some good news. Did they get it? The results are pretty good for them: The unemployment rate fell to 7.8% -- the first time it's been below 8% since Jan. 2009. More from the AP: "The Labor Department says employers added 114,000 jobs in September. The economy also created 86,000 more jobs in July and August than first estimated."
*** Does it have an impact? We continue to see these monthly jobs numbers have very little impact on the public. Yet they have had a bigger impact on the tone of the political coverage in a 24- to 48-hour period, and that helps the Obama campaign change the subject from Wednesday night's debate. In addition, do not underestimate the psychological impact of the unemployment rate falling BELOW 8%. It's been an anchor around the president's leg politically for years, not months. How many times have Republicans said, "He promised unemployment below 8%!" Well, voila... And one thing we learned a few months ago was just how underreported job gains were in 2011. And this report, of course, featured upward revisions.
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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney participate in their first debate at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, October 3, 2012.
*** Is Romney's plan a $5 trillion cut? Speaking of numbers, there has been a lot of attention over whether Mitt Romney's tax plan is a $5 trillion tax CUT plan. "I'm not in favor of a $5 trillion tax cut. That's not my plan," Romney said at Wednesday's debate. "My plan is not to put in place any tax cut that will add to the deficit." If you take Romney at his word, he's right -- he's saying that he will pay for those tax cuts by closing loopholes and other deductions. But here's the problem for the Romney campaign: We know the math how you get to just about $5 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years. It starts with reducing tax rates across the board by 20%, eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax and erasing the federal estate tax. Together, that comes to $450-$480 billion by 2015. You do that over 10 years (standard budget estimations), and you get about $5 trillion. But what we don't know is the math of how you offset the nearly $500 billion per year as Romney has pledged, because the Romney campaign has yet to provide any specifics about what he would cut. But we do know that he has ruled out:
- touching preferential rates on capital gains and dividends (Simpson-Bowles does RAISE these rates for their offsets),
- exemptions for Roth IRAs and 401(k)s, and
- the exclusion of capital gains on home sales
Now the Romney campaign has taken issue with the Tax Policy Center's analysis because the conclusion it drew is that the only way you offset the $4.5 to $5 trillion over 10 years -- after handcuffing yourself on the pledges above -- is to eliminate deductions that will inevitably touch the middle class. The Romney folks say the Obama campaign and Tax Policy Center have created a straw man. But the problem is that Romney has not responded at all with ANY detail on how they do it. The math isn't just hard; it becomes nearly impossible (at least politically) once you account for the pledge handcuffs. The Romney campaign is hoping to make it until November without having to provide its own straw man beyond, "That's not true." The downside of getting the real second look the campaign wants is that they will need to provide some answers to this $5 trillion question.
*** A tale of two different campaigns : Yesterday, we wrote that the Obama campaign had the opportunity to change the story coming out of the debate -- from the president's performance to some of the potentially problematic things Romney said -- but it was clear who had the better Thursday. Here's yesterday's dispatch from NBC's Garrett Haake and Alex Moe: "Capitalizing on momentum from Wednesday night's debate, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan whipped up their base here in rural Virginia with a raucous rally complete with fireworks, live music and pointed new attack lines aimed at their Democratic opponents. 'I got the chance to ask the president questions that people across the country have wanted to ask him, such as why is it that he pushed Obamacare at a time when we had 23 million people out of work?'' Romney said in Fishersville, VA. As mentioned above, the campaign even featured fireworks at the end (perhaps a tad gloat-ish). But given how long it's been since the Romney campaign felt this confident, perhaps you can't blame them.
*** One with momentum, the other with something to prove: Meanwhile, Obama was campaigning like he had something to prove. As NBC's Kristen Welker reported, "A fired-up President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of more than 12,000 at a Denver campaign event Thursday and seemed to exude the energy and aggressiveness that many of his supporters felt was missing at last night's presidential debate… Obama argued … that the Mitt Romney who appeared at the debate was not the 'real Mitt Romney.' 'When I got on stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney,' he said. 'But it couldn't have been Mitt Romney, because the real Mitt Romney has been running around the country for the year, promising $5 trillion dollars in tax cuts that favor the wealthy. The fellow on stage last night didn't seem to know anything about that." Yet Obama's events yesterday (in both Denver and Madison, WI) only raised this question: Where was THAT guy on Wednesday night? And yesterday's more forceful Obama -- coupled with his campaign's conference call and new TV ad -- only seemed to amplify what happened at the debate. By the way, it was hard to find an Obama SUPPORTER at the Denver rally who thought the president did a good job at the debate. Even his die-hards weren't sugar-coating it.
*** Romney cleans up his "47%" comment: Not only did Romney yesterday try to build momentum after his debate; he also did some major clean-up work. He went on FOX's Hannity program and said his "47%" comment was "completely wrong." As the Washington Post reports, "Hannity asked Romney how he would have responded had President Obama brought up the comment the GOP candidate made at a fundraiser lastspring saying that he was unconcerned about the 47 percent of people who see themselves as victims entitled to government support. 'Well, clearly in a campaign, with hundreds if not thousands of speeches and question-and-answer sessions, now and then you're going to say something that doesn't come out right,' Romney said. 'In this case, I said something that's just completely wrong.'" It was a smart time to do it -- better to do this clean-up work with the wind at your back than in damage-control mode. But it does raise the question: How many re-sets can a presidential nominee have? Three weeks ago, you're standing by what you said, even if it was inartful; now you're saying it was completely wrong.
*** Two points on "Moderate Mitt": In fact, there's plenty of coverage today of how Romney ideologically re-set his campaign at Wednesday night's debate. National Journal writes that Romney "made his long-anticipated leap to the center." And David Brooks' New York Times column is even entitled, "Moderate Mitt Returns!" We had been previewing this move over the past couple of weeks -- with Romney acknowledging he's the "grandfather of Obamacare" and using his Massachusetts health-care law as an example of his empathy. But here are two points: one, as that National Journal piece notes, Obama let Romney get away with this move to the center at the debate. And two, there has been NO conservative blowback so far to Romney's move. Many influential conservatives, for now at least, are back to simply wanting to win.
*** Democrats' public angst: And here's one final point we want to make about the aftermath from the debate: Democrats reacted to Obama's performance exactly like they reacted to Solicitor General Verrilli's oral arguments in the health-care case -- with pronouncements of angst. And there's a lesson here for Democrats and liberals: While Wednesday's debate certainly didn't help, it's also very possible that it didn't prove to be fatal, either. But we'll see what the polls show next week. And trust us: They will be PLENTY of polls for everyone to see. But realistically, the first polls you should trust that will absorb the ENTIRE impact of the debate and post-debate are the runs released no sooner than Tuesday… You want surveys that were actually in the field Sunday and Monday.
*** New Romney ads: The Romney camp is up with three new TV ads – one for Ohio talking about standing up to China and creating 12 million new jobs; one in Nevada featuring ex-UNLV basketball Greg Anthony (who says he voted for Obama in 2008); and one hitting Obama on the deficits and debt.
*** On the trail: Obama campaigns in Fairfax, VA (at George Mason University) at 10:45 am ET and then in Cleveland, OH (at Cleveland State University) at 2:35 pm ET… Romney holds a "coal country" event in Abington, VA at 11:35 am ET and then he heads to a rally in St. Petersburg at 6:15 pm ET.
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Audi A3 E-tron plug-in hybrid revealed
* 188mpg Audi A3 E-tron revealed * Will be on display at Geneva motor show * VW Golf plug-in hybrid to follow...
A plug-in hybrid version of the Audi A3 will be revealed at the Geneva motor show next month.
The Toyota Prius-rivalling hatchback, which goes on sale next year, pairs a 1.4-litre 148bhp petrol engine with an electric motor to produce a combined output of 201bhp. The A3 E-tron can run on electric power alone for 30 miles or just the petrol engine, but in most conditions it will draw power from both sources.
Audi's head of development, Wolfgang Durheimer, claims the Audi A3 E-tron will be extremely efficient, with average economy of 188mpg and CO2 emissions of just 35g/km. It will sprint from 0-62mph in 7.6 seconds and go on to 139mph.
The A3 E-tron will spark a host of new plug-in hybrid models from the VW Group. Durheimer said: 'It's the breakthrough technology that VW will place its bets on in the future. It gives customers the benefit of electric technology without any mobility constraints.'
A plug-in hybrid VW Golf, with identical technology, will follow shortly after the Audi. VW Group engineering boss Ulrich Hackenburg has also promised that a plug-in Up will go on sale, using the same powertrain as VW's high-tech XL1, which has just been confirmed for production.
Elsewhere in the VW Group, Bentley is known to be working on plug-in hybrid technology for its Continental and Mulsanne models, using V8 petrol engines and electric motors. Porsche, too, is likely to use a similar system for the next-generation Cayenne and Panamera.
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